Audit

The inclination of federal courts to require metadata be included with electronic documents obtained through e-discovery seems to be seeping down to the state courts. In a case decided by the Arizona Supreme Court last fall, justices flipped two...

When planning security for a data center many things pop into mind—firewalls, anti-virus software, filtering—but data categorization may not be one of them. Yet, some security experts would argue that building silos for classifying data is the cornerstone of...

It’s a data center administrator’s worst nightmare. A data tape headed for destruction disappears in transit. Even companies that use the very best tape management systems to track tapes and other media have no control once the media is in transit....

Google has spoiled data searchers. Since the search engine is so effective for so many kinds of online ferreting, there’s an inclination to believe that we’ll always find exactly what we want by typing some keywords in a...

In keeping with our end-of-the-year-predictions theme, it’s time once again to crank up the crystal balls and make fearless predictions about what will happen in the coming year. This time we look at cloud computing.

December is the traditional time for prognosticators to take their runes from the closet and give us insight into the future. Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind, a legal knowledge management outfit based in San Francisco, provided some insight a few...

Tape as a storage medium has been pronounced dead as often as paper has as a medium for documents. Those pronouncements from so-called experts don’t seem to have prevented the $3 billion printer industry from turning a tidy profit...

Spending by organizations to comply with electronically stored information (ESI) regulations stemming from lawsuits and regulatory probes has risen this past year and will continue to rise in 2010, according to a new study.

Geography may have lost its luster among curriculum creators, but it remains an important consideration when planning a data center. After all, no business wants to locate such a critical component to its overall mission in a place where...